Example sentences of "that [adj] patient " in BNC.

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1 In particular , Milner , Taylor and Sperry ( 1968 ) and Sparks and Geschwind ( 1968 ) found that split-brain patients were able to repeat digits presented to either ear alone but showed almost total absence of report of digits presented to the left ear when different digits were simultaneously presented to the right ear .
2 Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) .
3 That question is not for the Government ; it is for the hon. Gentleman and his party to explain to his constituents why it is in the interests of the patients of Manchester to remove private patients from NHS hospitals , to deny the NHS revenue that private patients bring and to deny benefits to NHS patients in general .
4 The results showed that private patients were predominantly middle aged and were from Social Classes I and II .
5 Our contracts specify that private patients , many of whom are themselves blood donors , are not charged for the blood itself .
6 If the physiotherapist sets the correct goals , they will be achieved , but she has to recognize that each patient reacts differently to rehabilitation , depending on a variety of factors .
7 On December 17th 1803 the house committee ordered that each patient and servant belonging to the House should have ‘ one pound of Plumb Pudding and half a pound of Beef ’ for dinner on Christmas Day .
8 you 're up against the power relationship that each patient is caught up in with their consultant .
9 By insisting that each patient was negative for H pylori by microscopy , C-urea breath test , urease slide test , and H pylori IgG serology we ensured that no patient was included with current or recent infection .
10 Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone .
11 ( 1984a ; 1984b ) found that depressed patients with the most clear signs of biological dysfunction had no less chance of having an antecedent stressor .
12 However , Nelson et al showed that colonised patients could contaminate their environment .
13 It is probable that many patients are treated privately and so these cases are not notified and also that some patients may come to England for diagnosis and treatment .
14 It is in fact possible that some patients , especially those with marked symptoms of anxiety or depression , benefit from drugs and are better able to cope with their problems as a result , but the size of this group is not known .
15 Gastroenterologists Virginia Alun Jones , John Hunter , and colleagues at Addenbrooke 's Hospital ( Lancet , 1982 , vol 2 , p 1115 ) , have shown that some patients improve when their diet is altered , suggesting that IBS is an aspect food intolerance .
16 This is based on the idea that some patients are unusually susceptible to their environment , the diagnosis and treatment are based on an unstandardised provocation-neutralisation test .
17 A recurring comment was that some patients deliberately prolong treatment .
18 Remember that some patients will be more prone to hazards than others but that there may be occasions when all patients could be at risk .
19 Failure to pay due regard to the relativities between units will ensure that some nurses work under greater pressure than necessary and that some patients receive a reduced level of service .
20 Against those who advocated the end of any separate provision for the mentally ill were those who argued that some patients could best be helped by care within specialized institutions provided these were not huge , obsolete in design and rigidly organized .
21 This study shows that some patients are not referred for specialist opinion , the shortfall being mainly among elderly people .
22 On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs .
23 Half the patients who require heart surgery are dealt with immediately , but the hon. Gentleman is right to say that some patients have to wait .
24 Particular emphasis will be given to the implications of the finding that some patients with visual recognition impairments resulting from brain injury can show evidence , in implicit tasks , of ‘ covert ’ recognition of stimuli they fail to recognise explicitly .
25 This phenomenon has been discussed above and is not because of the carcinogenic effect of cimetidine but undoubtedly reflects that some patients with gastric cancer were thought to have peptic ulcer and therefore treated with cimetidine .
26 In conclusion , this study highlights the fact that some patients are not being referred for consideration for liver transplantation when this might be life saving .
27 One possibility is that some patients thought to be stone free may , in reality , have had residual debris despite our use of the best available techniques ( ultrasonagraphy+oral cholecystectography ) to ‘ confirm ’ complete gall stone dissolution .
28 There is no doubt that some patients with alcoholic liver disease have evidence of malnutrition , but it is not a universal finding .
29 This speculation would accord with the fact that some patients with myelodysplasia and a 5q deletion have a very low risk of transformation ( eg , 5q syndrome ) whereas in other myelodysplasia patients a 5q deletion is associated with poor prognosis ( eg , secondary MDS ) .
30 Although in practice this means that some patients with chronic stable renal failure would have been referred for rapid investigation and diagnosis , we believe that this is preferable to taking a lower cut-off for carbamylated haemoglobin , such as 125 g VH/g Hb which would reduce sensitivity to 80% but increase specificity to 75% , since this would exclude some patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure that may not be so readily reversible if investigation and appropriate management were delayed .
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